Benjamin L. Wallace Appointed United States Attorney for the District of Delaware

Wilmington, Delaware – Acting pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546(d), the United States District Court for the District of Delaware has appointed Benjamin L. Wallace to serve as the United States Attorney for the District.

Ben is a native Delawarean.  He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, and his law degree from Yale Law School.  After law school, Ben clerked for Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Sri Srinivasan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Raymond Kethledge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  Ben also served as an attorney-adviser in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel.  In that role, he advised the President and Executive Branch agencies on complex questions of constitutional and statutory law.  Immediately before returning home to Delaware, Ben was a partner at the Washington, D.C., office of a national law firm.

Ben has been a member of the U.S. Attorney’s Office since 2023.  As a line prosecutor, he handled all manner of federal cases, from gang-related homicides to complex financial frauds.  In July 2025, Ben became the First Assistant U.S. Attorney, supervising all criminal prosecutions and all civil suits brought by or against the United States in the District.

U.S. Attorney Wallace stated, “I am honored to serve my home state as the U.S. Attorney.  I will work tirelessly to ensure that justice is administered effectively and evenhandedly here in Delaware.  I want to thank the President, the Attorney General, and the Judges of our District Court for the confidence they have placed in me.  I also want to thank my predecessor, Julianne Murray, for her partnership and her steadfast service to the state.  I pledge to do my utmost to uphold the proud traditions of our exemplary U.S. Attorney’s Office.”

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